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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Fake News"”.
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Venäjän ulkoministeriön fake news -retoriikka
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan Venäjän ulkoministeriön retoriikkaa. Tutkimuskohteena on Venäjän ulkoministeriön verkkosivu, jolla ministeriö esittää vastineita kansainvälisestä mediasta valikoimiinsa valeuutisiksi kategorisoimiinsa uutisiin. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan, millaisiin uutisiin ministeriö …
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ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS TO COMBAT ONLINE FAKE NEWS
… moment on the Web has fostered the rise of ``fake news.'' Because of its detrimental effect on democracy, global economies, and public health, effectively combating online fake news has become an essential and urgent task.<p>This dissertation starts with making typological, theoretical, and …
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Machine learning for detection of fake news
… to an increase in the popularity and spread of fake news. As demonstrated by the widespread effects of the large onset of fake news, humans are inconsistent if not outright poor detectors of fake news. With this, efforts have been made to automate the process of fake news detection. The most …
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An advanced ensemble approach for detecting fake news
Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the Masters in Information and Communications Technology degree, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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AI-Driven Fake News Detection: Trends, Techniques, and Experimental Analysis
The rapid spread of fake news poses a significant challenge to information accuracy. This thesis highlights fake news definitions and characteristics, introducing a taxonomy that categorizes AI-driven detection methods into model-centric and process-centric approaches. We evaluate various …
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Combating fake news with adversarial domain adaptation and neural models
… era where it is easier than ever to disseminate "fake news" and other dubious claims, automatic fact checking becomes an essential tool to help people discern fact from fiction. In this thesis, we focus on two main tasks: fact checking which involves classifying an input claim with respect to its …
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The Impact of Positive/Negative Fake News on Country Brand Equity
… with truth motivates research on the effects of fake news on country brand equity, given the distant and intangible nature of this construct. This study integrates valenced framing theory with construal-level theory to investigate how fake news frames influence perceptions of credibility, …
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Information literacy at the crossroads: Fake news influence and student behavior
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Fake news, real hip: rhetorical dimensions of ironic communication in mass media
This paper explores the growing genre of fake news, a blend of information, entertainment, and satire, in main stream mass media, specifically examining the work of Stephen Colbert. First, this work examines classic definitions of satire and contemporary definitions and usages of irony in an effort …
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Fake news en la narrativa de Willax TV. impacto social y desafíos
también son conocidas como fake news alrededor del mundo. Hoy en día la sociedad está inmersa en este tipo de mensajes, Perú no es la excepción, razón por la que el presente estudio, con enfoque cualitativo, parte de la interrogante: ¿De qué manera las fake news influyen en la narrativa de la …
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Foreign policy as fake news? Bolsonaro’s electoral fearmongering campaign in Brazil (2018)
… as a fertile site for the faking and making of news that presidential candidates employed during elections. Specifically, I analyze how and for what purpose(s) Bolsonaro framed Venezuela and the United States during his 2018 presidential campaign in Brazil. I show that Bolsonaro used the two …
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Media of Mass Destruction : how fake news is killing Italy's olive trees
In 2013, the plant pathogen Xylellafastidiosa was found in Salento, Italy's most southeastern region, famous for its centuries-old olive trees. Spread by insects, the bacterium is decimating those trees and compromising the production of olive oil, which accounts for a considerable part of the …
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Novel weapons: the invasion of fake news and the evolution of political news ecosystems
… the question: how are recent attempts to insert fake news into political news ecosystems similar to and different from previous attempts? To this end, I present a historical timeline of major technological shifts that have altered political news ecosystems, create a new framework for analyzing …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
… research provides a rich historical account of news media and its dissemination technology. Additionally, the thesis looks to several theories to show that these events are best understood as examples of larger processes endemic to modern capitalist societies. Utilizing news media and archival …
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Fun With Frames: Exploring Metacommunication and Real Media Frames in South Park's Fake News
… lampooned on the show is that of television news broadcasting. This thesis project seeks to shed light on entertainment media portrayals of television news journalists and television news journalism as a whole by examining the issues covered, how those issues are framed, and how the …
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DONT' BE FOOLED BY FAKE NEWS? MAPPING THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF MISINFORMATION BELIEF.
Why do people believe in fake news? I explore this question using five studies on more than 4200 participants. While there is extensive research on this question, most studies have primarily tried to identify specific individual mechanisms, e.g. cognitive styles, without considering the possible …
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Advancing Cross-Domain Fake News Detection: Enhanced Models to Improve Generalization and Tackle the Class Imbalance Problem
The rapid proliferation of fake news across domains, such as politics, health, and social media, poses a significant threat to the integrity of information dissemination, leading to misinformation that can affect public perception and decision-making. Detecting fake news is critical to preserving …
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